What are you hungry for?

It’s a deeply rattling experience for virginal vegetarian teenager Justine (Garance Marillier) when she enrols at the veterinary college where her wild and rebellious elder sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) is already a student. First she finds herself thrown into the college’s unbridled initiation rites; then she discovers she possesses a rampant hunger for flesh, not necessarily animal…

A confident debut by 33-year-old director Julia Ducourneau, taboo-breaking Franco-Belgian cannibal thriller Raw(Grave) won’t be to all tastes, but fans of art-house body horror will feast on the film’s startling images (some of them very grisly), as well as its dark humour and feminist subtext.

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